human rights group estimates 80,000 people have died in syrians 2-year-old civil war. steve sen fannie has the rest of this in washington. no talk of actually arming the opposition, at least not yet. not at this point, the focus is on diplomacy. international peace conference is being planned in geneva to work out some kind of solution with the help of the russians. the president is not promising success because as he says, quote. the furies have been unleashed. is he is referring to what he calls a toxic mix inside sir afterthe various ethnic factions, rec just groups, hezbollah, al qaeda, and a syrian regime determined to cling to power. meantime the british are stepping up their support for the opposition. >> we will double nonlethal support to the syrian opposition in the coming year. armored vehicles, body armor and power generators are ripe to be shipped. >> that international peace conference was set to take place later on this month. the state department announced yesterday it could be pushed back to early june, shep? >> shepard: steve, car bombings just across